JP2006308956A - Projector - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a compact, low-noise data projector wherein all the light generating sources are cooled by a single blower. <P>SOLUTION: Regarding the data projector 10, the light source apparatus 61 is arranged near the air outlet 113 of the cooling fan, and the light source apparatus 61 is cooled by the air discharged from the cooling fan, and also, the light generating sources other than the light source apparatus 61 in the projector 10 are cooled by external air flow sucked by the cooling fan. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a data projector that projects an image based on a video signal or the like.

  2. Description of the Related Art Today, data projectors that project an image displayed on a personal computer screen, an image of a video signal, an image based on image data stored in a memory card or the like onto a screen are widely used.

  In many cases, this data projector uses a small high-intensity light source such as a metal highland lamp or an ultra-high pressure mercury lamp, and the light emitted from the light source is converted into light of three primary colors by a color filter by a light source side optical system. It is structured to irradiate a display element called DMD (Digital Micro Device) and project the transmitted light or reflected light of the display element onto a screen through a lens group which is a projection side optical system having a zoom function. Yes.

This data projector has a large amount of heat generated from the light source, and further includes a heat source such as a light source side optical system, a power supply circuit, and a display element. Therefore, an air cooling fan is provided to provide a light source device or power supply circuit that is a heat source. The mechanism which cools etc. is built in.
As this cooling mechanism, there has been proposed a light source device that has a particularly high temperature and generates a large amount of heat as well as another heat source, and also separates an optical system, a power supply unit, and the like to perform cooling for each section ( For example, Patent Document 1)
JP 2004-054055 A

  In addition to the high temperature and high heat generation light source lamp, the data projector incorporates a heat source such as a power supply circuit, a light source side optical system, and a DMD as a display element. The cooling fan is provided, so that it is difficult to reduce the size of the projector, and noise is also generated by the fan.

  The present invention provides a compact and low-noise data projector by cooling all heat sources by a single blower.

  In the present invention, a light source device (61) is arranged in the vicinity of an air discharge port (113) of a blower (110) serving as a cooling fan, and the air discharged from the blower (110) using the light source device (61) as a cooling fan is used. A data projector (10) that cools and heats a heat generation source other than the light source device (61) in the projector (10) by an external air flow sucked into the cooling fan.

In addition, the control circuit board (103), which incorporates the control circuit of the projector (10) and serves as the main circuit board, is a plurality of boards, and the plurality of control circuit boards (103) are stacked with a gap between each other, It is preferable to arrange in the vicinity of the air inlet (111) of the cooling fan.
A display element (51) such as DMD is disposed in the vicinity of the main body case inside the projector (10), and an air flow passage is formed by a gap between the display element mounting plate (55) and the main body case. The heat sink (53) of the display element (51) may be disposed on the path.

The cooling fan is preferably arranged near the center of the projector (10).
The light source device (61) is housed in the lamp house (120), and the exhaust air of the cooling fan is blown into the lamp house (120), and the air in the lamp house (120) is directly transferred to the outside of the projector (10). May be discharged.

Further, the lamp house (120) preferably forms part of the wall surface by a partition wall made of a heat insulating material.
Further, the light source side optical system such as the light guide rod (75), the prism (77), or the mirror may be fixed by a heat good conductor.
The control circuit board (103) may be provided with a vent hole (105) at a position near the air inlet (111) of the cooling fan.

  In the present invention, since the light source device is disposed in the vicinity of the air discharge port of the cooling fan, the light source device can be sufficiently air-cooled by blowing exhaust from the cooling fan to the light source device having the highest temperature and high heat generation. Since other heat sources are cooled by the outside air drawn into the fan, each heat source in the projector is cooled by a single cooling fan, and a single cooling fan makes it easy to reduce the size of the projector Is something that can be done.

  The projector 10 according to the present invention arranges the projection side optical system along the side plate of the main body case, arranges the display element 51 near the back plate 13 in accordance with the optical axis of the projection side optical system, and attaches the display element. A gap is formed between the plate 55 and the back plate 13 to form an air flow path, the heat dissipation plate 53 of the display element 51 is disposed in the air flow path, and the light source device 61 is positioned inside the projection side optical system. The partition walls 121 and 122 made of heat insulating material are provided inside the light source device 61, a cooling fan is arranged in the approximate center of the projector 10, and the air discharge port 113 of the cooling fan is positioned in the vicinity of the light source device 61 so that the partition walls 121 and 122 made of heat insulating material are used. The air discharged from the cooling fan is blown to the light source device 61 from the middle, and the air blown to the light source device 61 is discharged from the front plate 12 of the main body case to the outside of the projector 10.

  Further, a control circuit board 103 serving as a main circuit board of the projector 10 is arranged in the vicinity of the cooling fan, and the intake air of the cooling fan is sucked along the control circuit board 103, and the power supply control circuit 41 is arranged immediately inside the main body case or A part of the member provided on the main circuit board and forming the light source side optical system is accommodated in a case 131 of a good heat conductor and fixed to a main body case such as the bottom plate 16.

As shown in FIG. 1, the data projector according to the present invention has a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape, and has a lens cover 19 that covers a projection port on the side of the front plate 12 that is a main body case. A plurality of vent holes 18 are provided.
Although not shown in FIG. 1, a key / indicator section is provided on the top plate 11 which is a main body case. The key / indicator section includes a power switch key and power on / off. There are provided keys and indicators such as a power indicator for notifying the lamp, a lamp switch key for lighting the lamp of the light source device, a lamp indicator for displaying the lighting of the lamp, and an overheat indicator for notifying when the light source device is overheated.

In addition, on the back of the main body case (not shown), a control signal from a power adapter plug or a remote controller, and an input / output connector portion provided with a USB terminal, a D-SUB terminal for image signal input, an S terminal, an RCA terminal, etc. on the rear panel. Ir receiving unit and the like are provided.
A plurality of vent holes 18 are provided in each of the right side plate, which is a side plate of the main body case (not shown), and the left side plate 15, which is the side plate shown in FIG.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the control circuit of the projector 10 includes a control unit 38, an input / output interface 22, an image conversion unit 23, a display encoder 24, a display drive unit 26, etc. The image signals of various standards input from the unit 21 are converted so as to be unified into image signals of a predetermined format suitable for display by the image conversion unit 23 via the input / output interface 22 and the system bus (SB). Are sent to the display encoder 24.

  The display encoder 24 develops and stores the transmitted image signal in the video RAM, generates a video signal from the stored contents of the video RAM, and outputs the video signal to the display drive unit 26.

  A display drive unit 26 to which a video signal is input from the display encoder 24 drives a display element 51, which is a spatial light modulation element (SOM), at an appropriate frame rate corresponding to the image signal sent. Yes, the light from the light source device 61 is incident on the display element 51 through the light source side optical system, thereby forming an optical image with the reflected light of the display element 51, and through the projection system lens group serving as the projection side optical system. An image is projected and displayed on a screen (not shown), and the movable lens group 97 of the projection system lens group is driven by a lens motor 45 for zoom adjustment and focus adjustment.

  In addition, the image compression / decompression unit 31 compresses the luminance signal and color difference signal of the image signal by a process such as ADTC and Huffman coding, and sequentially writes the data into a memory card 32 that is a detachable recording medium, In the mode, the image data recorded on the memory card 32 is read, and individual image data constituting a series of moving images is expanded in units of one frame and sent to the display encoder 24 via the image conversion unit 23. A moving image or the like can be displayed based on the stored image data.

The control unit 38 controls the operation of each circuit in the projector 10, and includes a ROM that stores operation programs such as a CPU and various settings fixedly, and a RAM that is used as a work memory. ing.
In addition, an operation signal of a key / indicator unit 37 composed of a main key and an indicator provided on the upper surface plate 11 of the main body case is directly sent to the control unit 38, and a key operation signal from the remote controller is received by Ir. The code signal received by the unit 35 and demodulated by the Ir processing unit 36 is sent to the control unit 38.

  An audio processing unit 47 is connected to the control unit 38 via a system bus (SB). The audio processing unit 47 includes a sound source circuit such as a PCM sound source, and converts the audio data into analog data in the projection mode and the playback mode. The speaker 48 can be driven to emit loud sounds.

  The control unit 38 controls the power supply control circuit 41. When the lamp switch key is operated, the power supply control circuit 41 turns on the lamp of the light source device 61, and the cooling fan drive control circuit 43 Is to detect the temperature by a temperature sensor provided in the light source device 61 or the like and to control the rotation speed of the cooling fan.

  These ROM, RAM, IC and circuit elements are attached to a control circuit board 103 as a main control board, and a power system power supply control circuit 41 is incorporated in the lamp power circuit board 101 to control the main control system. A control circuit board 103 as a board and a lamp power supply circuit board 101 of a power system are formed separately.

  Further, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the internal structure of the projector 10 is such that a lamp power circuit board 101 incorporating a power control circuit 41 is disposed in the vicinity of the right side plate 14, and a sirocco is placed in the approximate center of the bottom plate 16. The fan type blower 110 is arranged as a cooling fan, the discharge port 113 of the blower 110 as a cooling fan is fixed toward the light source device 61 incorporating the light source lamp, and the projection side optical system is arranged along the left side plate 15 In addition, the light source device 61 and the light source side optical system are arranged inside the projection side optical system.

  As shown in FIG. 6, the optical system of the projector 10 includes a light source device 61 in which an ultrahigh pressure mercury lamp is provided as a discharge lamp 63 inside a reflector 65 whose front surface is covered with an explosion-proof glass 68, and the light source device 61. A light source side optical system that irradiates a DMD (digital micromirror device) that uses light emitted from the display element 51, a display element 51, and light that is reflected by the display element 51 to form an image is emitted to the screen The lens unit of the projection-side optical system is configured.

  Further, the light source side optical system includes a color wheel 71 that is provided with a color filter around which light emitted from the light source device 61 is red light, green light, and blue light and is rotated by a wheel motor 73. A light guide rod 75 that uses light transmitted through the filter as a light flux having a uniform intensity distribution, a prism 77 that changes the direction of light emitted from the light guide rod 75 by 90 degrees, and light that has passed through the prism 77 is displayed on the display element 51. The light source side lens group 83 is formed by a plurality of lenses that are condensed on the light source, and the mirror 85 that irradiates the display element 51 with a predetermined angle with the light transmitted through the light source side lens group 83 is formed.

The prism 77 combined with the light guide rod 75 may use a mirror instead of an optical prism.
Further, as the projection-side optical system, the fixed lens group 93 built in the fixed barrel 91 and the movable lens group 97 built in the movable barrel 95 are variable focus type lenses having a zoom function. The movable lens group 97 is moved by the motor 45 to enable zoom adjustment and focus adjustment.

  Further, the rear plate 13 is provided with a vent 18 at a rear portion of the display element 51, and an air flow path is formed by the rear plate 13 and the display element mounting plate 55, and the vent 18 provided in the rear plate 13 and Outside air sucked from a vent hole 18 provided behind the left side plate 15 is caused to flow along the back plate 13 toward the blower 110.

  As shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, a display element heat radiating plate 53 is arranged behind the display element mounting plate 55. As shown in FIG. 5, the control circuit board 103 has two control elements. Air flowing along the control circuit board 103 is sucked into the air inlet 111 of the blower 110 between the two control circuit boards 103 as a board or above or below the two control circuit boards 103.

  Further, it is assumed that the light source side optical system and the light source device 61 are housed in a lamp house 120. The lamp house 120 includes a first partition 121 extending from the discharge port 113 of the blower 110 to the front plate 12, as shown in FIG. A second partition wall 122 that supports the lens barrel 81 so as to penetrate the second partition wall 122 from the vicinity of the display element mounting plate 55 to the vicinity of the discharge port 113 of the blower 110 and the light source side lens group 83. And the fourth partition wall 124 that partitions the projection side optical system and the light source device 61 so as to reach the front plate 12 continuously from the third partition wall 123, and as shown in FIG. It is covered with 125.

The first partition 121, the second partition 122, the third partition 123, and the house cover 125 are made of a heat-insulating plate material, and the fourth partition 124 is made of a good heat conductor such as an aluminum plate.
Further, the discharge port 113 of the blower 110 is positioned near the light source device 61 toward a gap provided between the first partition 121 and the second partition 122.

  Inside the lamp house 120, a rectifying plate 127 is disposed near the color wheel 71 in parallel with the color wheel 71, and a part of the air discharged from the discharge port 113 of the blower 110 and blown into the lamp house 120 is disposed. Is made to flow along the surface of the color wheel 71.

The light guide rod 75 and the prism 77 are fixed to the bottom plate 16 so as to be housed in a metal case 131 of a good thermal conductor, and the metal case 131 and the fourth partition wall 124 are connected by a metal rod 133. Is.
Therefore, when the fan of the blower 110 is rotated, the blower 110 as a cooling fan sucks air around the blower 110, and sucks air around the blower 110 inside the projector 10, thereby providing a large number of units provided in the main body case of the projector 10. The outside air is sucked into the projector 10 from the air vent 18.

  The outside air sucked from the rear vent 18 in the left side plate 15 or the vent 18 provided in the back plate 13 is interposed between the back plate 13 and the display element mounting plate 55 so as to cool the display element heat radiating plate 53. The air flows through the air flow path, and is sucked into the air inlet 111 of the blower 110 through the control circuit board 103 through the space between the upper and lower surfaces of the control circuit board 103 and the control circuit board 103.

Further, part of the outside air sucked into the projector 10 from the vent hole 18 of the right side plate 14 reaches the control circuit board 103 so as to pass around the lamp power circuit board 101 and flows along the control circuit board 103. In this way, the air is sucked into the air inlet 111 of the blower 110.
The power supply control circuit 41 is not limited to the case where the power supply control circuit 41 is provided on the lamp power supply circuit board 101 separated from the control system circuit.

  A part of the exhaust flow of the blower 110 blown into the lamp house 120 flows along the color wheel 71 by the rectifying plate 127, and most of the flow flows around the light source device 61 and as shown in FIGS. In addition, a part of the air flowing around the light source device 61 flows from the opening provided in the reflector 65 so as to pass through the interior of the reflector 65, and the light source device 61 and the color wheel 71 are cooled to ventilate the front plate 12. 18 is discharged to the outside of the projector 10.

  Thus, since the light source device 61 that has the highest temperature inside the projector 10 and generates a large amount of heat is disposed near the discharge port 113 of the blower 110 that serves as a cooling fan, a large amount of air is blown onto the light source device 61. Thus, the light source device 61 and the color wheel 71 disposed in the immediate vicinity of the light source device 61 can be effectively cooled.

  The light source device 61 is provided inside the lamp house 120 surrounded by the first partition 121, the second partition 122, the third partition 123, the fourth partition 124, and the house cover 125, and blown into the lamp house 120. The discharged air is discharged directly from the vent hole 18 of the front plate 12 to the outside of the projector 10, and the first partition 121, the second partition 122, and the house cover 125 of the lamp house 120 are formed of a heat insulating plate material. Therefore, the projector 10 can be effectively cooled without transferring the exhaust heat of the light source device 61 to other spaces inside the projector 10.

Further, the light guide rod 75 and the prism 77 provided inside the lamp house 120 are radiated and cooled by a large amount of air flow in the lamp house 120 while being radiated through the metal case 131 and the metal rod 133. Is.
The display element heat sink 53 and the lamp power circuit board 101 are cooled by fresh outside air sucked into the projector 10 from the outside, and the control circuit board 103 is cooled by a large amount of air sucked into the blower 110. The heat source in 10 can be efficiently cooled by one cooling fan, and the projector 10 can be downsized.

Since the blower 110 serving as the cooling fan is disposed near the center of the projector 10, the rotation sound of the fan is difficult to leak to the outside, and the noise from the fan can be reduced.
The display element heat dissipation plate 53 is cooled by adjusting the position, number and size of the air holes 18 provided in the rear plate 13 of the projector 10 and the interval between the display element mounting plate 55 and the rear plate 13. The cooling of the lamp power circuit board 101 is also adjusted by the position, number and size of the vent holes 18 provided in the right side plate 14 and the distance between the lamp power circuit board 101 and the right side plate 14. The control circuit board 103, which is the main circuit board, is also dependent on the distance from the air inlet 111 of the blower 110, the number of control circuit boards 103, and the distance between each control circuit board 103 and the control circuit board 103. The cooling efficiency can be adjusted by setting and adjusting the air flow rate and speed.

Further, among the plurality of control circuit boards 103 stacked at intervals, the control circuit board 103 arranged at the uppermost position is made larger than the other control circuit boards 103 to form a cooling fan as shown in FIG. The upper part of the blower 110 may be covered with a part of the uppermost control circuit board 103.
In this case, the control circuit board 103 arranged at the uppermost position of the plurality of stacked control circuit boards 103 is provided with a plurality of vent holes 105 in accordance with the position of the air inlet 111 of the blower 110.

  Thus, by enlarging the control circuit board 103 arranged at the uppermost position of the plurality of control circuit boards 103, it becomes easy to arrange and attach many control circuit elements, and the position of the intake port 111 of the blower 110. Therefore, the air inside the projector 10 can also be sucked into the blower 110 from the vent hole 105, and the control circuit board 103 arranged at the uppermost position and the upper surface plate 11 of the main body case It is possible to generate a flow in the air on the upper surface of the control circuit board 103 arranged at the uppermost position so as to suck the air in the above-mentioned space into the blower 110.

Therefore, by adjusting the number, size, and arrangement of the vent holes 105, and further adjusting the gap between the upper surface of the blower 110 and the control circuit board 103 that covers the upper side of the blower 110, the upper surface of each control circuit board 103 and The degree of cooling can be adjusted and set by controlling the wind speed and flow rate of the cooling air flowing on the lower surface.
The cooling fan is not limited to the sirocco fan type blower 110.
The present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above, and can be freely changed and improved without departing from the gist of the invention.

The figure which shows the external appearance of the data projector concerning this invention. The circuit diagram which shows typically the control block of the data projector concerning this invention. The figure which shows typically the state which removed the upper surface board of the data projector concerning this invention. The figure which shows typically the state which removed the house cover and partial partition of the lamp house in the data projector concerning this invention. The figure which shows typically the state seen from the back of the state which removed the upper surface board of the data projector concerning this invention. The figure which shows typically the state cut | disconnected horizontally by the half height of the data projector concerning this invention. FIG. 3 is a partial cutaway view schematically showing a main part of the data projector according to the present invention. The figure which shows typically the state which removed the upper surface board in the other Example of the data projector concerning this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Projector 11 Top plate 12 Front plate 13 Back plate 14 Right side plate 15 Left side plate 16 Bottom plate 18 Vent hole 19 Lens cover 21 Input / output connector part 22 Input / output interface 23 Image conversion part 24 Display encoder 25 Video RAM 26 Display drive part 31 Image compression / decompression unit 32 Memory card 35 Ir receiving unit 36 Ir processing unit 37 Key / indicator unit 38 Control unit 41 Power supply control circuit 43 Cooling fan drive control unit 45 Lens motor 47 Audio processing unit 48 Speaker 51 Display element 53 Heat sink 55 Display Element mounting plate 61 Light source device 63 Discharge lamp 65 Reflector 66 Opening 68 Explosion-proof glass 71 Color wheel 73 Wheel motor 75 Light guide rod 77 Prism 81 Lens barrel 83 Light source side lens group 85 Mirror 91 Fixed barrel 3 fixed lens group 95 movable lens tube 97 movable lens group 101 lamp power supply circuit board 103 control circuit board 105 vent hole 110 blower 111 inlet 113 discharge outlet 120 lamp house 121 first partition 122 second partition 123 third partition 124 fourth Bulkhead 125 House cover 127 Current plate 131 Metal case 133 Metal lot

Claims (8)

  A light source device is disposed in the vicinity of the air discharge port of the cooling fan, and air discharged from the cooling fan is blown onto the light source device, and the air blown onto the light source device is discharged outside the projector. A projector characterized in that a heat source other than the light source device in the projector is cooled by an external airflow that is sucked.   The main circuit board into which the control circuit of the projector is incorporated is a plurality of boards, and the plurality of circuit boards are stacked with a gap between each other and arranged near the air inlet of the cooling fan. 1. The projector described in 1.   The display element is disposed in the vicinity of the main body case inside the projector, an air flow path is formed by a gap between the display element mounting plate and the main body case, and the heat dissipation plate of the previous display element is disposed in the air flow path. The projector according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the projector is characterized in that   The projector according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the cooling fan is disposed near a center of the projector.   A lamp house is formed inside the projector, the light source device is housed in the lamp house, the exhaust air of the cooling fan is blown into the lamp house, and the air in the lamp house is directly discharged to the outside of the projector. The projector according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the projector is provided.   The projector according to claim 5, wherein a part of the wall surface of the lamp house is formed by a partition wall made of a heat insulating material.   The projector according to claim 1, wherein a light source side optical system such as a light guide rod, a prism, or a mirror is fixed by a good thermal conductor.   The projector according to any one of claims 1 to 7, further comprising a vent hole in a part of the main circuit board disposed in the vicinity of the air inlet of the cooling fan.

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